Calibrating ESCs Motor shaking/stammering


#1

Hi,

I am working on Video Calibrating ESCs. I managed to calibrate the motors with black top. When I try the motors with silver top the motors just shake or stammer but do not speed up like the other two.
When I detached the motors from the frame and tried to calibrate unattached both silver top motors work fine. I am using the Dojo Drone kit.

Any suggestion!

-Ali


#2

Ali

See the following and try the process again. Make sure the frame mounting screws are not contacting the motors.

https://community.dojofordrones.com/t/calibrating-escs/324

https://community.dojofordrones.com/t/calibrating-the-esc/262

https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/esc-calibration.html

Note this can be also be accomplished conveniently using Mission Planner

Let us know how it goes ; )

Jack


#3

Another thing you may look into @AliMuhammad is the bullet connectors on the motors.

If they are just jittering back and forth, this 99% of the time means there is residue on the bullet connectors of the motors, creating unnecessary resistance.

You can start out rotating the male bullet connectors in a circle when they are plugged into the ESCs. This will sometimes scrape off residue.

If this doesn’t work, you may need to take a small pliers, gently grab one of the 3 motor bullet connectors and rotate it in a circle. You will see a white residue come off. Do this for several rotations and on each bullet connector. Then try to power it again. Doing this a couple times should remove jittering behavior of the motors.


#4

I just had the exact same issue wierd… played with the wires switched them around… took them in and out and now its working


(Resolved)Issues on Motor Spin Direction Video
#5

Having a like issue. New build, new components…don’t suspect any corrosion on bullets and, without de-soldering the ESC and connecting it to the next motor over, the issue follows the ESC. New ESC bad (probably, it’s Chinese)? Didn’t calibrate correctly maybe?